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Walker Place, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79842. The Survey maps it on the Marathon quadrangle.

Walker Place within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walker Place in 2006, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMC KNIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shoemaker Place0.9 miles12
Fourmile Crossing1.6 miles12
Mitchell Place2.3 miles12
Ansley Place2.5 miles12
Causey Place2.6 miles11
Kriebaum Place3.4 miles11
Old Beekley Place4.1 miles12
Louis Granger Place4.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379224. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.